Yetemegnu was born around 1916 in Gondar, Ethiopia, was married at age eight to a high-ranking clergyman, and lived for nearly a century, through huge political upheavals and social change
A Wife's Tale [my review]a metafictional excavation of Armenian literary history
A Book, Untitled [my review]what does a book cost? the finances of a small publisher
Galley Beggaryshort stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers
Happy Stories, Mostly [my review]How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It
Traffication [my review]"ecologist Paul Donald looks at noise, air and light pollution among other harms, and at the effects on populations and species and ecosystems, not just on individual animals"
the boom in Japanese and Korean literature in English translation
Booker Prizeslumping the two together seems odd to me, as they seem quite different to me - at least as different as French and English literature
Stephen King, America's poet-laureate of car-based mayhem?
Adrian Dubif people aren't reading Moby Dick or Crime and Punishment, it doesn't mean they aren't reading novels
CMSThomassome 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, offering a "pointillist" rendering of French history
France in the World [my review]white gloves are not necessarily a good idea when handling rare books
Unbound
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